The Sunniest Moments From The 100th Episode Of ‘Always Sunny’: ‘The Gang Saves The Day’

The Gang got ambitious for their 100th episode of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and I really can’t imagine them hitting the mark any with more accuracy as they treated us to a high concept departure that further explores the later season theme of diving head first into character psychologies and the bizzare idiosyncrasies that make Mac, Dennis, Dee, Charlie, and Frank tick.

“The Gang Saves the Day” is exactly what you want from a 100th episode: different and blown out enough to acknowledge the achievement while never feeling self-congratulatory and out of place. All the segments rang true to our merry band of dysfunctional characters and — while maybe not delivering the sharp interactions we’ve come accustomed to in standard episodes — gave us a unique glimpse without straying.

All were great, but I think we can agree that the animated window into Charlie Kelly’s mind and soul is what took things to next level exemplary. Let’s take a look character by character, shall we?

Mac Saves The Day

Mac’s fantasy was the most predictable and straightforward of all, even if he still doesn’t understand a pun. He of course averts the crisis, badass-style.

And in heroic death, forces his friends to realize they should have never doubted his awesomeness before leaving them to forever feel hollow inside.

He then of course goes to Mac Heaven where he’ll forever be surrounded by beefy dudes who compliment his sweet moves. Mac perfection achieved.

I wasn’t crazy about this episode, but I generally don’t like it when they experiment too much with the actual tone and set up of the show. Episodes like this are just by their nature low on classic Sunny gang moments and that’s the main reason i watch the show.

Very true, although there were some very lol moments in this episode, I prefer the formula of – gang gets an idea – gang tries to implement idea – implementation goes horrible – thinking back initial idea was horrible – gang ends up where they started.

This episode and “The Gang Desperately Tries to Win an Award” have really stood out this far as my two favorites. I think the award episode might’ve been my favorite of the whole series and that says a lot. Country Mac was good, but these two have top notch.

It was my favorite, but only because we got another “Jackie Denardo walks slowly while ‘Alone’ plays” moment. Not necessarily because she’s hot, but Dennis’s psycho look as he gives her the slight side eye the first time around kills me every time.

This time it was watching his facial expression change when he picked up the pillow. Sad – nothing – orgasm face.

I have to agree with the rest, I wasn’t sure if I would be enjoying the 9th season of “Always Sunny” because I figured how low can they go, but they did it. I think it’s starting off very strong, My favorite episode yet has been the 3rd episode with Sudz and this one. Charlie is an adorable and disgusting human being, I just love him!

on another note, how many episodes have there been this season so far? i know i’ve commented more than 4 of these things but i only have 4 badges. whats up uproxx? you owe me some sunny badges!!! lol don’t make me go america all over your ass. after all, i do live my life for uproxx badges. im not no0ne to happy of this fuckery. love the articles tho, keep it up!!

mac’s had me worried about where the rest of the episode was going to go, but dee got it right back on track. i think my favorite part of it was that groban sang his song for dee exactly the same as when she tosses in her own song during nightman.

charlie’s was wonderful. reminded me of how floored i was when family guy did the disney scene. and it was sappy enough to make me remember my dog recently died, so it certainly got the waterworks going a tad.

In Mac’s dream, Prodigy’s “Smack My Bitch Up” is playing in the background and the chorus drops perfectly when Sweet Dee is just mollywhopped by nunchucks. A nice little subliminal “I love you” to the wife.

I cannot remember another show that found it’s stride again in season NINE. That episode was absolutely perfect and I have no complaints whatsoever. Dennis and Frank had the funniest moments imo but I laughed at every scenario.

Some seasons had definitely had slower starts. They always found their way and all seasons have a handful of memorable episodes. That said, this season has started strong and hasn’t let up. That’s pretty damned impressive.

Idk, I wasn’t particularly fond of half of Season 7 and most of Season 8. Obviously, that’s still a pretty impressive run and by no means is “bad” Sunny worse than the best of most sitcoms, I just think Season 9 has brought it back to top form so far.

I hate myself for saying this but How I Met Your Mother is actually rebounding in its 9th season. Now that they don’t have to spin their wheels and drag out Ted meeting his wife forever they can actually accomplish things and make it funny again, who knew?